Cafe on the Beach at the Manatee County Public Beach was doing a brisk business today.
I’ve been cooped up in the house all week so I just had to take advantage of the clear weather this afternoon and take a walk on the beach. I’ll shut up and let the pictures do the talking.
A few spring-breakers mingled with the vacationing families and snowbirds on Anna Maria's beaches today.
Spring breakers gather on Holmes Beach, Anna Maria Island
The surf was up today but there were surprisingly few surfers in the water.
There were an unusual number of jellyfish on the beach today. The radiating brown markings identify this sea nettle, which can give quite a sting.
This large jellyfish appears to be a Mushroom cap jelly. Several days of onshore winds bring the jellyfish ashore on the gulf beaches. This jelly is upside down, so you are looking at the underside. This jelly does not have long trailing tentacles like the sea nettle or the man-of-war.
This is one of the top surfing spots on the southwest gulf coast.
I don't usually see a lot of longboards at this spot, but this guy was getting a lot of rides. It's not the easiest place to longboard.
Some of the peaks were pretty big, but not as steep and fast as usual at this spot.
No one escapes the occasional spectacular wipe-out. He does look surprised though.
The end of a good day of surfing the gulf coast of Florida.
The end of life for a large mushroom cap jellyfish.
